Star profile
HIP 17342
Highly luminous starWhat is HIP 17342
In Camelopardalis shines a luminous orange giant whose light has been on its way for more than two thousand years. When it set out, the Roman Empire was spreading under Augustus and aqueducts were being raised in Hispania that still stand today. It is a colossal K-type star, far larger and brighter than the Sun, capable of lighting our sky from a distance few visible stars surpass. Its glow is a slow postcard from antiquity, received now in a world that has long forgotten the Latin once spoken beneath it.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 17342 lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is December: the Sun sits at the opposite point of the sky and the star culminates around midnight. How high it climbs above the horizon depends on the latitude you watch from.
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Astronomical data for HIP 17342
- Constellation
- Camelopardalis
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.74
- Distance
- 2064.6 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 55.678° · Dec 59.969°
- Catalogue
- HIP 17342 · HD 22764
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Other stars in Camelopardalis
Camelopardalis has 75 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- Beta Camelopardalis4.03
- HIP 162284.21
- Alpha Camelopardalis4.26
- HIP 199685.69
- HIP 338275.69
- HIP 199835.72
- HIP 655955.74
- HIP 229365.75